There is a difference between "deciding" and recognizing.
That’s true. But it seems to me, at least in recent times, that the recognizing has only hurt the institution. It has become just another lousy contract that can be broken and resumed as long as the gov’t says so, at least for many. Now the state will not stop at benignly recognizing marriage, to many people the state actually defines it for them. And the statists and homosexualists love that, because it means many will accept whatever the gubberment puts forth as marriage, even impossibilities like “gay marriage”. That the state defines marriage in the minds of many gives the statists and homosexualists tremendous control of the culture. They especially love that the state has the power to punish if folks don’t accept their ever mutating version of marriage.
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